Word: sound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...windows an artificial snow storm of unbleached corn flakes swirled in a frosty void. Display Director O'Clare thought that one up, and L. & T.'s President Walter Hoving defended it against the conservative protest of the Fifth Avenue Association which has a rule against "motion or sound...
Last week motion and sound definitely entered the displays of Fifth Avenue stores below 42nd Street. At Altman's big toys revolved in the windows. In each window at Franklin Simon's a cute white angel stood at a cute white organ under changing colored lights while organ music breathed from lofty loudspeakers. Lord & Taylor had windows full of its famed big, swinging golden bells with chime accompaniment, the same as last Christmas-the first "repeat" in recent Fifth Avenue history...
Last week, in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Ceferino Garcia challenged Henry Armstrong for his welterweight crown. Many of the 15,000 spectators expected the Filipino, 13 pounds heavier, with an advantage in height and reach also, to land just one sound bolo punch, and the onetime triple champion, who had recently abandoned his featherweight crown, would have only one crown left. But Little Man Armstrong, looking like a pygmy, showed them that his famed strategy of getting in close and pounding away with both fists-fast, furiously and from all angles-is hard to solve, harder to beat...
...things militate slightly against Professor Frankfurter, two other factors are still more strongly against the West. In the first place, it is unfortunate but true that there is a great lack of man power of Supreme Court caliber in the West. Although there are numerous sound conservative possibilities, it is, of courts, inconceivable that anyone but a fairly rampant liberal would get the call from the White House...
Problems are hard enough for the average undergraduate who takes mathematics, without adding technical difficulties to the mathematical ones. Specifically, Math A with its promiscuous sections often fails to give men a sound fundamental training in its field...